Conflict of interest register and management

Conflict of interest register and management

Working Party Members were asked to declare in writing, any interests relevant to the guideline development, prior to commencement. Members were asked to update their information if they became aware of any changes to their interests.

All declarations were added to a register of interests as listed below. The register was made available to the Working Party throughout the development of the guideline, allowing members to take any potential conflicts of interest into consideration during discussions, decision making and formulation of recommendations.

If Working Party Members were identified as having a significant real or perceived conflict of interest, the Chair could decide that the member either leave the discussion whilst the specific area they were conflicted in was discussed or the member could remain present but not participate in the discussion, or decision making on the specific area where they were conflicted. There were no instances where this occurred during the development of this guideline.

Dr Cameron Bell

Chair Gastroenterologist – Royal North Shore Hospital, Sydney NSW

No conflict of interest to declare

Dr Karen Barclay

Colorectal Surgeon and Lecturer in Surgery, The Northern Hospital and the University of Melbourne, Melbourne VIC

Professor Macrae is a Board member of Genetic Health Services Victoria, and the Human Variome Project International Pty Ltd and is a Director for the International Society for Gastrointestinal Hereditary Tumours. He is a Consultant for CSIRO (Australia), S.L.A. Pharmac AG and Endogen Pty and an international advisory faculty consultant to Given Imaging.

He is involved in clinical trials with

• Abbott Australasia

• Centocor

• ChemoCentryx

• Endogene Pty Ltd

• Given Imaging

• Glutenon Pty Ltd

• MerckSharpe Dohme

• Optiscan

• Pentax

• Shire

• UCB

• Bristol Myer

Professor Ian Olver AM

Convenor, Working Party/ CEO, Cancer Council Australia, Sydney NSW

No conflict of interest to declare

Professor Cameron Platell

Colorectal surgeon – Winthrop Professor of Surgery, University of Western Australia, Perth WA